Hot Stove Baseball is a free H2H category-based auction salary keeper league with 12 teams across three divisions. Season 1 begins with drafting a 25 man roster auction style, after season 1 each team may keep up to $125 in player salaries. Each team must keep a minimum of 8 players, including any combination of active roster and minors. There is no maximum number of players that one team can keep under the $125 limit.

Active rosters have the following starting (point-scoring) positions: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, OF, OF, OF, UTIL, 4xSP, 4xPitcher. In addition to active rosters each team will have 5 prospects in their minors, as dictated by an offline milb slow style draft on ProFSL.com.

All teams will be awarded $20 league money on opening day to be used for acquiring free agents; The league will operate on a priority-based 48-hour waiver wire. Teams’ free agency activity shall be limited by available cap space. Free agents and waiver wire pick ups cost a team $1 and are eligible to be kept; waivers and free agent acquisitions follow the same contract/salary regulations as players purchased at auction.